Tuesday, 15 August 2006

Festival d’Art Pyrotechnique – La France

Tonight was Pyromélodique & Pizza in Cannes once again for a continuation of the Fireworks Festival.As I mentioned before, each week of the Festival proves to be more crowded than the week before.The line for dinner at La Pizza, along the old port of Cannes, was the most crowded we’ve ever seen it.We waited in an unruly line of people for about 45 minutes to get a table on the terrace.By the time we got to Plage Royale to rent our beach chairs, there was no place on the beach with three chairs together, so they put us (Dave, Monique, and I) on the ponton (a pier on pontoons), which juts out into the Bay of Cannes.Dave and I had always wondered how it was possible to get seated on the ponton, so we were pretty excited to have finally gotten the privilege of sitting there.It turns out that the seats were pretty good, however, we thought the seats on the beach were actually better because they faced straight out over the water, whereas, the ponton seats faced out on either side, so you had to turn your head to one side to get a good view of the fireworks.

Tonight it was France who presented the fireworks, and it was an excellent show.In fact, Monique thinks that it is France who will win the sought-after “La Vestale d’Or”, while Dave and I both still think that it will go to Portugal.The program for tonight’s presentation was as follows: